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Saturday | The Dalles Chronicle

County awards waste stream study contract

By Sam Craig The Chronicle Some decisions are easier to make after eating a handful of freshly-picked cherries.

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Fri Jun 26, 2009

Statesman Journal

Wind turbines generating power

The first turbines erected for phase two of Portland General Electric's Biglow Canyon Wind Farm have started generating electricity, PGE officials said.

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Wed Jun 24, 2009

The Dalles Chronicle

Then there was one

Sherman County now officially has only one elementary school. Though, said Sherman County School District Superintendent Ivan Ritchie - and the principal of the newly-named Sherman Elementary - the district has known that for a while.

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Fri Jun 19, 2009

The Dalles Chronicle

Sherman residents speak out on school

Even with two mayors backing them, the group of parents and community members who are trying to keep North Sherman Elementary School from closing are having some problems convincing the district that it would be an economically feasible idea.

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Tue Jun 16, 2009

The Dalles Chronicle

Wasco rallies over school

With a unanimous motion at their June 8 meeting, the Sherman County School Board made some drastic changes that ruffled feathers across the county.

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Sat Jun 06, 2009

The Dalles Chronicle

a Linea tour comes to Mid-Columbia

The faith of Oregon's native and pioneer forebears is the subject of the Line in the Sand Tour "ROAR," , coming to The Dalles Monday as part of Oregon's 150th anniversary of statehood.

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Sat May 23, 2009

The Dalles Chronicle

Public health district begins

Wasco Sherman Public Health Department will expand July 1 to include Gilliam County, according to an announcement from Teri Thalhofer, department director.

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Sun May 10, 2009

The Dalles Chronicle

City clean-up set Saturday

The 22nd annual Community Cleanup event will take place on Saturday, May 9. In addition to picking up litter throughout town, The Dalles residents can also dispose of yard debris and other unwanted items by taking them to the National Guard Armory, at the corner of Sixth and Webber Streets, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Volunteers and donations are still ...

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Fri May 08, 2009

The Dalles Chronicle

Hulse, Zurflueh honored as Pioneers of the Year

The family of the Pioneer Woman of the Year settled in Sherman County during the 1890s.

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Sun Apr 26, 2009

The Oregonian

Fire takes a home, and neighbors take charge

With her daughter's pre-wedding party well under way in Southern California, Gina Wilcox didn't hear her cell phone ring, so a friend picked it up and learned the unthinkable news from home.

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Thu Mar 26, 2009

NewsBlaze

Lillian Pitt: An Artist Whose Modern Creations Have Ancient Roots

The U.S. environmental movement, which began to emerge in the 1800s, often is viewed as a fairly recent phenomenon since it did not achieve widespread public support until the 1960s-70s. But to Lillian Pitt - a Native American artist whose heritage can be traced to the Warm Springs, Yakima and Wasco tribes of the Pacific Northwest - living in ...

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Sat Feb 28, 2009

Statesman Journal

Oregon rural counties to get $1.5 million for homeless programs

Federal funds recently received by the Rural Oregon Continuum of Care, OR ROCC, will help keep housing assistance and supportive services alive for homeless individuals and families in 23 Oregon counties.

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Thu Feb 19, 2009

The Oregonian

Winter disaster loan outreach center opening

Businesses damaged by the worst winter storms in the Willamette Valley in 40 years may qualify for low-interest disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration.

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Tue Feb 17, 2009

The Dalles Chronicle

Sen. Wyden town hall meetings Tuesday and Wednesday

Senator Ron Wyden will hold his 500th town meeting in Fossil Tuesday, Feb. 17. Number 499 will be held that morning in Gilliam County; number 501 later that afternoon in Sherman County.

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Sun Feb 15, 2009

The Bulletin

Oregon at 150

Controversy from the beginning Oregon City, pictured in 1857, two years before statehood.

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Fri Feb 13, 2009

The Dalles Chronicle

An Original at 150

By KATHY GRAY of The Chronicle Wasco County conducts its business in marbled halls these days, but when Oregon was born, a day short of 150 years ago, the work went on behind clapboard walls above creaking ...

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Wed Feb 11, 2009

The Oregonian

Rock art exhibit at Bend's High Desert Museum

"Round Dance," a hand-printed lithograph, is among several works from Lillian Pitt, a contributing artist for "Rock Art Perspectives: Pictographs and Petroglyphs" at Bend's High Desert Museum.

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Mon Feb 09, 2009

Business Pulse of Skagit County

Native women work to revive lost art form

Get the Flash Player to see this player. Submitted Photo Suquamish artist Betty Pasco lived in her grandmother's home, but like many from her generation, she did not learn to weave from her elders.

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Wed Jan 14, 2009

Oregonlive.com

Two traffic stops add up to $40,000-plus of marijuana, three arrests

During two traffic stops in one shift last weekend, a Sherman County sheriff's deputy bagged more than $40,000 worth of marijuana and arrested three men in what authorities termed a "good night of police work." ...

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Sun Jan 11, 2009

The Dalles Chronicle

Bissonette joins North Wasco school board

By SAM CRAIG of The Chronicle For the past eight months, the North Wasco School Board has been feeling a bit incomplete.

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